THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair

Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 04, 2016

TIME:

9:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 2437

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING.

Changes the name of the Hawaii election campaign fund to the Hawaii citizens' election fund.

 

JDL, WAM

SB 2438

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE.

Replaces the Hawaii election campaign fund with the general revenues of the State as the funding source for the operating expenses of the campaign spending commission.  Appropriates moneys to the commission for operating expenses.

 

JDL, WAM

SB 2445

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE.

Establishes an exemption from the prohibition against using election campaign funds to make charitable donations or to award scholarships during the period from the filing of nomination papers to the date of the general election, for candidates who are already declared elected to office after running unopposed in an election.

 

JDL

SB 2444

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Requires the office of elections to join the Electronic Registration Information Center and share information with counties to encourage voter participation and ensure integrity of voter registration rolls.  Appropriates moneys.

 

JDL, WAM

SB 2443

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Requires recounts of election votes when the margin of victory is less than two hundred fifty votes or less than one percent of the votes cast, whichever is less.

 

JDL, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran

Chair